From: Elizabeth Childs (echilds@linex.com)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 18:08:39 MDT
> "We uphold the free search for truth. We will not be bound by a statement
> of belief. We do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed."
>
> "Human understanding of life and death, the world and its mysteries, is
> never final."
>
> So, it seems that not all religious people are ignoramuses after all.
I am told by a Unitarian friend that Unitarians have the highest average
household incomes, $100,000K+. Episcopalians come in second.
The Episcopalians, the church in which I was raised, hold as the three
pillers of belief, "Faith, the Bible, and man's reason." They use the third
pretty liberally to interpret the other two. They allow abortion,
pre-marital sex, and for women and gays to be priests.
I went to a Catholic service with a friend and was astounded to discover
that they had the same liturgy - except there were all of these bits added
about how man is an unworthy sinner. They just never mentioned that at my
church. The only time anyone mentioned Satan was a song for children that
had the line "And if the devil doesn't like it, he can sit on a tack."
My deeply religious Episcopalian/Methodist father was genuinely shocked when
he met a Creationist. He couldn't believe that anyone, particularly an
educated person such as this one, could believe such a thing.
I like to go to church once in a while because the liturgy is poetic, the
hymns are lovely, and the women wear hats.
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